webyourbusiness Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 Firstly, apologies if you see this more than once - I'm only posting it to each forum I'm a member of ONCE, but I will be posting it to fairly large number of forums...A web site preying on those that mis-type web addresses has targeted Google.com with a site that attempts to infest your PC with multiple browser hijackers...Just be careful how you type google.com and hit return... more information from f-Secure on the problem here...http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/googkle.shtmlDo NOT visit the Googkle.com site unless you are supremely confident in your Anti-virus/Anti-Trojan setup!!Here's why ..... this is one nasty site - it has at least 4 trojan/hijackers that I found in a very cursory scan of the HTML - all of which appeared to be blocked by my hosts file, let alone NOD32.Nothing managed to get through my hosts file to the NOD32 I run - although without a very extensive hosts file, I'm sure they would have...I'm sure a more qualified security expert can provide a more in-depth analysis, and although I'm no expert, I can see that this site has the potential to be nailing many, many, MANY googlers with finger trouble!The site itself is hosted on an EV1.net (Houston, TX) IP address and is registered to someone out of St. Petersburg in Russia... if anyone knows someone at EV1.net, it might be worth sending them a quick email... who knows.. it might (should) get pulled for a while....http://www.whois.sc/googkle.com
DigeratiPrime Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 I believe there are many sites like this. I will try crashing Firefox into the site later in vmware just to see what happens, I'd bet nothing. One could also make Google the home page or use a google toolbar to avoid typing the url each time.
sonu27 Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 We should be OK, if you got the latest patches.One for the JPG patch.
XPerties Posted April 27, 2005 Posted April 27, 2005 I went there any everything is ok. I mean nothing....wtf, why is my mouse running around. Nooooo now my screen is melting....what the hell, my dog is humping my chair, oh my god.........my wife just told me I was right.
matrix0978 Posted April 27, 2005 Posted April 27, 2005 I went there any everything is ok. I mean nothing....wtf, why is my mouse running around. Nooooo now my screen is melting....what the hell, my dog is humping my chair, oh my god.........my wife just told me I was right. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The wife part, lol thats impossible, i didnt even no that was in the 'wifes' vocabulary.
sven Posted April 29, 2005 Posted April 29, 2005 hum, iv so far only seen goggle.com (this just has an advertisement about a casino or something) i love how all the mispelled domains always lead to something that advertisements, or malware. its never an actual site lol
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